Technique
- Lie on your back with legs extended toward the ceiling.
- Reach your hands toward your toes, lifting your shoulder blades off the floor.
- Slowly return to the starting position and repeat.
Form tips
- Focus on contracting the upper abdominals.
- Do not pull on your neck with your hands.
Muscles
Strength
Primary
- Abs
- Obliques
- Pelvis
- Quadriceps
Secondary
- Hip adductors
Individual muscles
Individual muscles
- Rectus abdominis
- External oblique
- Internal oblique
- Iliacus
- Rectus femoris
- Psoas major
Equipment
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